THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins".
- And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."

Saturday, 25 June 2011

So Cameron's Government of Goons (once thought of by me as led by a 'safe pair of hands' - Ho! Ho! Ho!) thinks that, by keeping the UK out of any direct cash subsidy for Greece, it will maintain its own status quo when, in fact, the shock waves from Greece's predicament are inevitably going to affect all the countries which are locked together in the rictus-grinning death-grip of the 'Europe Union'. All that refusal to participate will do will be to maintain the UK as the nastiest smell in the Union.

Moreover, the current British Government has not yet cottoned on to the fact that, when Garden Broom bailed out the British banks with public money, he was (in a phrase that a friend used about it recently) just pushing the car wreck around the corner out of sight) and a veritable storm is gathering overhead on that account alone. But the Goons in Government just sit around, as usual, navel-gazing.

Maybe, part of the trouble stems from the haemorraghing of public money on foreign 'campaigns', such as that in Afghanistan (and British blood too), and in paying developers, through the corrupt 'RDAs' - 'redevelopment' agencies - sums such as £58m spent in one south western town, to create an asset that is now for sale for £28m. Where did the other £30m go - ah! mostly into the developers' back pockets, after they had bribed various officials.

And Brazil and Pakistan are mocked for their corruption. My word.

Today's picture is from Albrecht Durer's Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse.

About Me

Nicholas Storey is a Cornishman and a law graduate of University College London. He had a career in the law in London; both in the Government Legal Service and in private practice before he moved to Brazil in 2006. Besides technical works, he is the author of the well-received 'History of Men's Fashion - What the Well Dressed Man is Wearing' (Pen & Sword Books Ltd, available through all the usual UK outlets, including: amazon.co.uk; Waterstones; W H Smiths; Tesco; play.com; Zawi and, for sales overseas, it is available on all the amazon sites, listed at the end of www.amazon.com). For the publisher's site - see "Links to my books" above. The best current deal, with worldwide free shipping, appears to be at www.bookdepository.com. Nicholas Storey is also currently publishing (again through Pen & Sword Books) a complementary miscellany on men's grooming, accessories and pleasures ('History of Men's Accessories - A Short Guide For Men About Town'), to be followed by a third book in the series, this time on the sporting life. After that, there is to be a book on a selection of Great British Adventurers.